A HUGE temple, once surrounded by about 300 huge posts made from an entire oak forest, was discovered directly beneath the Hill of Tara in Co Meath. The Discovery Programme, set up under the auspices of the Heritage Council, carried out a survey of the Hill of Tara between 1992 and 1996 using sophisticated technology, […]
Pádraig Mac Piarais (Padraig Pearse) was an Irish teacher, barrister, poet, writer, nationalist, republican political activist and revolutionary; he who was one of the leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Following his execution along with fifteen others, Pearse came to be seen by many as the embodiment of the rebellion. Pádraig, his brother Willie, […]
Napper Tandy convenes the first meeting of Dublin’s United Irishmen
Tutankhamun (c. 1342 – c. 1325 BC) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who was the last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th dynasty during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history. His father was the heretical king Akhenaten, believed to be the mummy found in the tomb KV55. His mother […]
The system, in other words, is practically issuing you with an invitation to defy it, and make it impossible to enforce the law against you.
Ireland in 2022 is a mirror image of Ireland in 1952 in almost every single way
The delegation pleaded with Heytesbury to follow the example of Belgium and Portugal, which had closed their ports to food exports
The names you have read in relation to this story in whatsapp groups and on facebook pages are, by definition, almost certainly wrong.
Barry’s execution outraged nationalist public opinion in Ireland and its diaspora.
Michael D is who we want to be. The Government is who we are.
That’s the problem, in Ireland: If you could convince an Irish politician that burning the whole country down was the grown-up thing to do, and that it was in line with best international practice, they’d do it.
Due to the massive imbalance in their demographics, the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party announced the decision to relax the one-child policy. Under the new policy, families could have two children if one parent, rather than both parents, was an only child. Apart from the violence endured by many Chinese women who were […]